Futurama

You know how there are those series which you're always happy to see return? For us, "Futurama" is on our list. We distinctly remember watching the series premiere. We remember being disappointed at its cancellation. And we remember being happy at the series' rebirth. There is something so hugely weird about this tale of a regular old fool who has been transported to the future. It's like "Buck Rogers," but purposefully funny and somewhat more animated. Plus, like "Buck Rogers," it has a crazy robot.

Past Events

We would not place the odds of "Futurama" coming back from the dead a second time as very good. The series, as you well know, was cancelled by FOX many a year ago and then, after a few years off the air, was revived by Comedy Central. After airing several years on the new network, it has now been cancelled once again. Tonight, we are told, is the last new episode of "Futurama" that exists. Tonight, we will get one last look into the world of Fry and Leela and Bender and all the other weirdos who are featured on the series. Watch and laugh one last time.

The end is all too near. It is rapidly approaching... far too rapidly. There are a total of 26 episodes in the entirely of season seven, and tonight is episode 20, which is way past halfway. Even if you don't choose to look at it that way, even if you only want to think about the fact that there are 13 episodes in this half-season, we're still at number seven tonight and, therefore, more than halfway through the half-season. Once it's gone (again), you're going to miss it, so watch it now while the watching is good. The series finale (the second series finale if you want to be a stickler) is about a month and a half from now.

Comedy Central has announced that this current season of "Futurama" will be the show's last. Of course, we've heard that before, haven't we? This show was on FOX back in the day before disappearing for years and then got resurrected here on cable. So, yes, right now it appears as though the run of episodes which begins tonight will mark the last new episodes we'll ever get of "Futurama," but we don't know if we should believe it. It really could just be that the show is going to end up in stasis. Think of it as becoming something like a disembodied head in a jar, just waiting to be picked up and dusted off.

Hermes decides to relax at a spa after receiving a depressing demotion, but he instead unwittingly enrolls himself at a forced labor camp; Fry enters into a secretive relationship with the inspector sent to replace Hermes.

Hermes decides to relax at a spa after receiving a depressing demotion, but he instead unwittingly enrolls himself at a forced labor camp; Fry enters into a secretive relationship with the inspector sent to replace Hermes.

Amy's romance with Kif takes a an unexpected twist when he gets pregnant with their child, forcing her to question whether or not she is responsible enough to be a mother, while Kif journeys back to his home world in order to give birth.

Amy's romance with Kif takes a an unexpected twist when he gets pregnant with their child, forcing her to question whether or not she is responsible enough to be a mother, while Kif journeys back to his home world in order to give birth.

When the group begins to notice that Zoidberg is acting erratically, Professor Farnsworth deduces that it is mating season on his home planet; Zoidberg returns home to take part in the ritual, but he has trouble attracting a mate.

When the group begins to notice that Zoidberg is acting erratically, Professor Farnsworth deduces that it is mating season on his home planet; Zoidberg returns home to take part in the ritual, but he has trouble attracting a mate.

Bender becomes highly profitable and begins to sell his entire body after a mine disaster causes the market value of titanium to soar; Richard Nixon's head buys Bender's body and uses it during his presidential campaign.

Bender becomes highly profitable and begins to sell his entire body after a mine disaster causes the market value of titanium to soar; Richard Nixon's head buys Bender's body and uses it during his presidential campaign.

Bender flushes Nibbler down the toilet in a fit of jealousy, which prompts Professor Farnsworth to implant a chip inside him that will allow him to feel empathy; Bender travels into the sewers to search for Nibbler and encounters sewer mutants.

Bender flushes Nibbler down the toilet in a fit of jealousy, which prompts Professor Farnsworth to implant a chip inside him that will allow him to feel empathy; Bender travels into the sewers to search for Nibbler and encounters sewer mutants.

Fry attempts to win Leela's heart by learning to play an instrument that has a projector to show matching holographic pictures; in order to become skilled enough to woo Leela, Fry realizes that he must make a deal with the Robot Devil.

Fry's sneezing fit inadvertently reintroduces the common cold to a world in which the simple affliction has long since been eliminated, and the resulting epidemic threatens the world's citizens with devastating consequences.

When Amy's parents attempt to destroy an environment, Leela decides to join an eco-feminist group to protest the destruction; a secret society seeks out Fry when an injury grants him telepathic powers; Bender has an affair with a mafia boss's wife.

Mom decides to initiate an invasion on Earth by using the undying loyalty of every robot on the planet; Mom's sons team up with Professor Farnsworth and the rest of the Planet Express crew in an attempt to save their home.

Bender is excited when the members of the Robot Mafia approach him to become a part of their nefarious capers, but problems arise when he learns that the gang's latest heist involves robbing Bender's friends and the Planet Express ship.

After Fry gets abducted by a UFO and returns to his friends without his nose, he, Leela and Bender set out to find the alien poachers who stole it; the trio travels to Omicron Persei 8 and help the ruler fix his troubled marriage.

Zapp Brannigan and Leela act as chaperones for a date between Amy and Zapp's first officer Kif, but problems arise when their ship crashes on a planet filled with Amazonian women; Bender and Fry's attempt to save their friends goes awry.

After he witnesses the Robot Mafia committing a crime, Bender agrees to testify against them and is put into witness protection until he can do so; the violent mafia robot Clamps assumes a new identity as a delivery person for Planet Express.

Fry begins to engage in a romantic relationship with a robotic clone of actress Lucy Liu, but problems arise when his friends discover that the real Lucy Liu's head has been taken hostage and used against her will to create numerous clones.

After becoming paralyzed, Bender receives an opportunity to go on tour with his favorite folk singer and act as a hero to all of the world's broken robots, but problems arise when he begins to regain his ability to move.

A doctor acquaintance of Leela's volunteers to give her a prosthetic eye so that she can look like a normal human; in an effort to collect numerous government stipends, Bender decides to adopt several children from an orphanarium.

Mom devises an evil plan to control the world using a popular new device; Fry decides to post a strange, embarrassing video of Leela on the World Wide Web for the whole world to see, causing problems between her and Zapp.

The crew makes a delivery to a planet inhabited by human-hating robots, and Bender becomes a captive when they discover that he works for humans; Fry and Leela disguise themselves as robots in order to infiltrate and rescue their friend.

When a bath meant to reduce the effects of aging on the professor spills over onto the crew, Fry's great-great-great-grandson becomes his babysitter, while Leela takes this as an opportunity to reclaim her childhood with her parents.

Bender flushes Nibbler down the toilet in a fit of jealousy, which prompts Professor Farnsworth to implant a chip inside him that will allow him to feel empathy; Bender travels into the sewers to search for Nibbler and encounters sewer mutants.

Bender flushes Nibbler down the toilet in a fit of jealousy, which prompts Professor Farnsworth to implant a chip inside him that will allow him to feel empathy; Bender travels into the sewers to search for Nibbler and encounters sewer mutants.

The members of the crew are forced to develop a plan to stop a strange race of intelligent cats, led by a sinister leader, that is using Amy's failed dissertation to invade planet Earth, causing utter chaos across the land.

Leela becomes upset when her mother starts dating Zapp Brannigan, and she attempts to break the couple up by seducing the dimwitted ship captain; Leela's father chases his dream of surfing the great sewer waves of the world.

Bender decides to take up photography, which eventually leads to him joining the paparazzi; Calculon challenges the world's greatest actor to an acting contest to the death; Fry and the rest of the Planet Express crew have their life forces removed.

After the Professor decides to resuscitate the crew with his new birth machine, Leela and Zapp Brannigan attempt to get out of a difficult dilemma when they find themselves stranded on a planet resembling the original Eden.

Fry attempts to win Leela's heart by learning to play an instrument that has a projector to show matching holographic pictures; in order to become skilled enough to woo Leela, Fry realizes that he must make a deal with the Robot Devil.

Hermes decides to relax at a spa after receiving a depressing demotion, but he instead unwittingly enrolls himself at a forced labor camp; Fry enters into a secretive relationship with the inspector sent to replace Hermes.

Richard Nixon's head decides to run for a third term as president of Earth; Leela becomes a campaign manager for an underdog candidate, but problems arise when it is revealed that he is missing an important piece of documentation.

After learning that the Brain Spawn are planning on destroying the universe, Fry is sent on a mission to destroy their base of operations; Leela becomes romantic with the mayor's aide, who uses his political clout to impress her.

Richard Nixon's head decides to run for a third term as president of Earth; Leela becomes a campaign manager for an underdog candidate, but problems arise when it is revealed that he is missing an important piece of documentation.

On a regular (let's say episodic) basis there is crazy stuff happening on "Futurama," and we fully expect this holiday special to prove no different. In fact, we fully expect this holiday special to prove to be even more crazy than the usual sort of crazy the show has going on. Can you imagine what Bender must get up to on the holidays? Can you imagine what the head of Al Gore does? And, if the present is any indication, can you imagine how early they start selling holiday stuff in stores int he future?

It has taken an awful long time for "Futurama" to get to their 100th episode, an awful long time. We don't mean in number of seasons, we mean in actual years. You're probably going to go off and say something about how that's all a result of the series being off the air for a number of years, but we're convinced that that's no excuse - if they'd really wanted to get to episode 100 before now they would have tried a little bit harder. Surely a pizza delivery boy living in the future with a drunk robot and a bunch of aliens could have worked it all out a long time ago.